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speed up labor..no rude comments please

skeen86skeen86 member
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I started losing my mucous plug the week of thanksgiving and have been losing little by little ever since. Last Wednesday I started having light menstrual cramps that continued into Thursday and I nested like crazy, went to my 37 week check up on Friday to find out I was dilated to a 3, 70% effaced and stationed at a -1. Once im up and around i have contractions and they willl last through the night but taper off by morning. I have been walking every day since and went today to my 38 week check up to find out I haven't progressed any. She said cervix is still a little firm but pointed in the right direction and baby is also in position. What can I do to speed up the cervix softening process and make contractions stick?
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Re: speed up labor..no rude comments please

  • NeeseyNeesey member
    You're only at 38 weeks. Patience is hard but a good thing. Baby obviously isn't ready yet.
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  • AmstreagleAmstreagle member
    edited December 2014
    Just wait! Let your kid cook.
    You could go into labor in a week maybe 4 more. Your baby will come when they are ready.
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  • ashiscuteashiscute member
    Unfortunately what your describing sounds pretty normal. The last few weeks are a bitch. Baby will come when ready.
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  • janda426janda426 member
    You aren't even full term. Let the baby come when they're ready
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  • PrimRoseMamaPrimRoseMama member
    The only thing you can do is wait...

    Honestly, birth is a process that happens on it's own. Why are all these people in such a damn hurry?

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  • ZooCrewMomZooCrewMom member
    I've had two babies at 41+ weeks and nothing will help, trust me, I tried. Relax and get some rest, you'll be glad you did later. 
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  • KateMcPreggersKateMcPreggers member
    Wow... Sorry you haven't gotten a single comment that was the answer you were looking for. :( I feel your pain. I'm due the 30th of this month, but luckily I haven't had any contractions and i'm still pretty comfortable. I thought 37 weeks was full-term? Someone said 39 is full-term? Lots of people have been telling me that eating pineapples, having lots of sex, and nipple stimulation can bring on labor... or castor oil (but that just sounds nasty to me). You should feel lucky you're already dilated! I'm so afraid i'm going to go to the birth center and they'll send me home cuz i'm only like 1 cm or something. haha at least you know you're already at 3!
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  • KateMcPreggersKateMcPreggers member
    Knew i shouldn't have commented at all... I need to grow up cuz I'm trying to encourage someone when she's uncomfortable? It's not like i said to go to the hospital now and get induced, just saying a couple things people have been telling me to do (even though I haven't done them cuz i'm fine with where my baby is at). I'm more than happy with my baby staying inside me till at least 40 weeks. Just figured the girl should have at least 1 comment that isn't saying she's stupid for wanting her baby out of her. Her body is going to do what it wants anyway. Not like having sex or eating fruit is bad for you. And I didn't really recommend castor oil- i said that sounded really nasty.
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    Your following what is called as a "putterer" pattern of labor described in the Bradley method. It is totally normal and healthy. It may mean that when you start active labor things go pretty quickly. Then again, it may not. 

    Cervical checks are useless. Seriously, totally useless. You can go forwards and backwards in cervical dilation, and nothing about your cervix can tell you when labor will happen. You may go into labor and be 1 cm dilated with no effacement, and have the baby 4 hours later. You may start at 4 cm and fully effaced and have the baby 24 hours later. FWIW, I may go all through delivery without a single cervical check. If I do get one, it will be when I feel like pushing. 

    As far as softening the cervix, sorry if this is TMI but since you asked sperm is the best natural cervix softener. It contains prostaglandins. Also you having an orgasm can trigger labor by releasing oxytocin and contracting your uterus. Nipple stimulation also releases oxytocin. So the best (and most enjoyable) way to jump start labor is have good sex often. Worst case scenario it doesn't work, but you still had sex, so it's a win win. You will only begin true labor if you and your baby are ready for birth.

    I agree with everyone else. Don't try to push your body. That baby will come when it is ready and your body is much smarter than you are about these things. 39 weeks is full term, and it is totally normal to have a baby at 42 weeks as well. I know you're ready to meet your baby and to be less uncomfortable, but every day towards the end is very important for your child's health. 
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  • BeevolBeevol member
    With my first, I was in "pre-labor" or "early labor" for a couple of weeks too - it is incredibly annoying so I feel your pain OP. 

    I think there are a lot of problems with the way the media portrays labor but one of the big ones is that on TV/in movies labor just happens and then you have a baby. I don't think I've ever met someone in person who went from nothing to labor to baby in quick progression for their first. 

    It's way more common to walk around at 3 cm, having consistent mild contractions for hours at a time that just stop, and feeling like a huge bucket of gross for a week or more. It sucks, but it's life and like the nausea and cramping and other pains of pregnancy, it wont last forever.  
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  • PrimRoseMamaPrimRoseMama member
    @KateMcPreggers‌ : "the answers OP was looking for" don't exist. You can't speed up labor. It's a process that needs to happen over time for the health of all involved.

    No one called OP stupid. We just can't magically tell her how to ripen her cervix faster or make her contract any more-- because we can't rush nature.

    I get that everyone wants to coddle & do the "oh sweetie" thing. However, in this instance all we can say is "wait. It sucks but all you can do is wait."

    Trying to rush things before baby is fully cooked is stupid & dangerous. Facts are facts.


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    KateMcPreggers said:
    Knew i shouldn't have commented at all... I need to grow up cuz I'm trying to encourage someone when she's uncomfortable? It's not like i said to go to the hospital now and get induced, just saying a couple things people have been telling me to do (even though I haven't done them cuz i'm fine with where my baby is at). I'm more than happy with my baby staying inside me till at least 40 weeks. Just figured the girl should have at least 1 comment that isn't saying she's stupid for wanting her baby out of her. Her body is going to do what it wants anyway. Not like having sex or eating fruit is bad for you. And I didn't really recommend castor oil- i said that sounded really nasty.
    No one here is going to encourage the OP by giving her recommendations to speed up labor. Why would anyone want to start speeding up the process when they aren't even full term yet?
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  • AmstreagleAmstreagle member
    janda426 said:
    I seriously can't believe people care more about telling someone what they want to hear over what's most important for both mom and baby's health. Seriously that's unbelievable. And to go so far as saying we are calling someone "stupid" because we are informing them it's not healthy to do anything yet. I mean, wow. The entitlement hurts.

    Apparently people took their parents teaching them "if you have nothing nice to say" bullshit to mean is you disagree with something don't have a voice...
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